• We’re going to make the Kindle version available in the future; it won’t be by tomorrow though. It won’t have the illustrations, because the Kindle’s screen will just ruin 75% of them, but it’ll be the full text.Update: Working on solving this. We’re going to make it a paid download like anything else in the Amazon store, but if you forward us your receipt from a purchase of the printed book we’ll send you a Kindle-compatible file for free! (As soon as we finish formatting the file; might be a week or so.)

We can’t necessarily make the same offer regarding every ebook format; there are just too many of them. If your Sony Reader or whatever can handle a .TXT file, though, great! Send us your receipt. We’ll look into an ePub version too; I don’t even know what that entails, but we’ll try.

If you want to buy the printed book on Tuesday to support the effort, but do not actually want the book itself, feel free to have it sent to us. We’ll donate any books we receive to libraries, schools, use them promotionally, etc.

If you want to wait and buy the Kindle version once it goes on sale, that’s cool too. We appreciate the support no matter what form it takes.

• Some folks have been asking for a preview of the book, or more information about the contents. Perfectly reasonable! Here are some of the MOD stories that’re available online already:
“FLAMING MARSHMALLOW,” by Camille Alexa, online in audio form in Escape Pod (under its original title, “Flaming Marshmallow and Other Deaths”)
“EXPLODED,” by Tom Francis. Posted by the author on Google Docs.

And here is the story “HIV INFECTION FROM MACHINE OF DEATH NEEDLE,” by Brian Quinlan, in its entirety:

This was Camille Alexa‘s first published storyfirst story written and submitted anywhere. She has since gone on to an illustrious writing career; her short story collection Push of the Sky (which includes her MOD story) is a finalist for the Endeavour Award, given annually to Pacific Northwest authors of science fiction & fantasy.

This is William Grallo, one of the authors. I saw you wanted to get in touch with me, so I sent you an email. Stoked for the book! Thank you!

http://thebroadabroad.net Elisa

I would really, really encourage you to keep the illustrations for the e-book versions. I find the pictures on my Kindle to be not perfect, but decent.

http://www.vantagegaming.net/ Ben Vail

You’re already at the top of Movers and Shakers… And it’s not even 5am in the US!

http://blog.pelotard.com Pelotard

“Working writer”, me? Well – OK – translator. So, yes, definitely writing-related. But this is the first time I get anything published that I wrote from scratch (in a paid market).

http://DonHensley.com Don Hensley

If that post time of: 25 Jan 2007 at 7:24 am on my first post sticks, and if this one is dated correctly, the problem may have been ‘no-script’… it’s the only thing I can think of, and the only thing changed between my two posts.

Or maybe I’ve been time traveling…

Don.

http://cdave.livejournal.com/ cDave

Gah! I want this, but the shipping alone is $8 to the UK.

It’s already at number 12 though. Well done!

James

I’ve just bought my dead-tree copy, and I’ll definitely take up the offer of a version for my kindle.

But I can’t stress enough how important it is to put the illustrations in the ebook as well. I’m perfectly aware that my Kindle’s screen isn’t a billion-colour HDTV behemoth; so I’m quite happy to get a best-effort conversion of the source material. But simply leaving out a chunk of the content because the creator ‘doesn’t think it looks good’ just comes across as lazy and inconsiderate.

(and besides, I *like* how pictures look on the Kindle!)

Jack

Just bought four dead-tree copies (the book’s #5 on Amazon now, woooooohoo), and am requesting an eventual iBooks-compatible version for the iPad. Illustrations (even color ones!) come through beautifully in iBooks, so you wouldn’t have the problem you’re having with the Kindle version. Please look into it. Thanks!

http://terranspalace.eu Terran

Ensured many of my friends pitched in and bought a copy. #5 in the best sellers list now, almost there!

Just bought a physical copy for my boyfriend, though I hope there will eventually be a version compatible with my Nook. The PDF version will probably work.

http://www.rickumali.com/ Rick Umali

I bought the book! Peace everyone…

http://wiki.joshuajamesslone.name Joshua J. Slone

Haha, I see I’m not the first to come in saying it’s better to leave in the illustrations for a Kindle version, even if some details are lost. However, I think I’m the first to offer a demonstration. I took the four illustrations from the 40 page preview, shrunk them, lowered the palette (with dithering), and put them into a simple test file. As the Kindle by default forces borders they’re shrunk even more at first, but selecting them for the full-screen view brings them to the full size (that I shrunk them to).